Last-Minute Friday Catblogging

It's 11:45 pm here now, and I'm just about ready for bed after a very long day of fruitless apartment-hunting - but I had to take part in the blogosphere tradition of Friday catblogging, since that is, after all, about half my reason for blogging in the first place. Here's Oscar being a much less compliant setpiece than the cabbage next to him, which is a Spitzkohl. I'd never seen Spitzkohl before (which surprises me, given the staggering variety of stuff our friends Beth and Brent alone grow and bring to the Green City Market!), but by looks it's a conehead version of a standard green head cabbage - who knew such a thing exists? I'm betting it tastes no different from regular green cabbage, but I'll report back if I'm wrong. By the way, Kohl=cabbage, and spitz=pointy; this pleases me!

There's a weird sort of inversion here from what I think must be the usual apartment-hunting situation: it seems easier to rent as a student, harder to rent as a couple! One landlord I spoke to said his ideal situation would be to rent to two female students who leave Bonn at different times, so that the one who stays behind can find another female student as a roommate, and then she can repeat the process, so that the landlord would get to wait years before renewing the lease and renovating the apartment. He's been holding one of his apartments unoccupied for six weeks as he waits for the perfect renters, rather than let a couple like us rent the place! Sucks! Anyway, we're going to try really really hard again tomorrow to find a place - hopefully luck goes with us.